I think cutaxes() will be a great extension of capabilities in Scilab.
/Claus
On 09-04-2021 17:19, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
Hello,
Le 02/04/2021 à 17:15, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
Dear all,
Thanks for your first feedbacks. I am somewhat answering in the body
of this message:
Le 02/04/2021 à 14:49, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit :
On 02/04/2021 12:16, CRETE Denis wrote:
Hello,
I am also in favour of including this function in Scilab, with an
“improved” name. However, as far as I know, an inset has very
frequently its own pair of axes, as opposed to a ticks-switching in
(only one of) the axes. Thus, I would not recommend a name with
“inset” and reserve it for a function more closely implementing an
inset.
Zoom is quite appealing.
I was wondering about “non-linear”_something…
Hello Denis,
I'm with you here: this should be included, but the name is not well
matching the features of the function.
Indeed, 'inset' is not at all what 'plot_plot' is offering.
I was also thinking about "non-linear-axis" or something like that,
but I am not sure such a name will improve discoverability of the
function.
But you are right: this is about having non-regular or non-linear axis.
nonlinear-plot ? non-regular-plot ? All this is not convincing for me...
You know, i thought very hard about the plotplots() naming before
finding and choosing this one and first publishing it ;-))
Indeed, plotplots() is not at all about insets, although an actually
zooming inset plotting separate function could also be useful (with
the zooming box and possibly rays linking it to the inset).
plotplots() is *not* about zooming or non-linear axis either: it can
be used with different and only linear scales, without mixing log and
lin ones.
So why "plotplots"? Typing "plot" in /Google Translate/ (from english
to french), i've got and we still get:
<Google's screenshot>
So *"plots" is very frequently used with the meanings "parcels,
pieces, patches, particles, shreds"*.
To me, this is just the right one, close to what the function
actually addresses: plotting several parcels/pieces/patches of some
given graphics.
This led me to this compact -- and i think talkative and meaningful
-- plotplots() name, that's not (only) a word game.
Other names i thought about were with "multiscaled", or thinks like
"plot_multiscale". But to me, this could lead to some confusion with
multiple axes covering the same whole graphic, as documented @
https://help.scilab.org/docs/6.1.0/en_US/plot_multiscaled.html.
That's (almost) the whole story about this plotplots() name.
Is it more meaningful to you?
Apparently, the current plotplots() name used for 3 years is not so
bad. I agree with Denis in private mail that it could be a bit more
specific. Here are some other name suggestions:
cutaxes
plotcutaxes
plotslicedaxes
slicedaxes
slice_axes
sliceaxes
plotfractional
cutaxes() would have my own preferences:
* the "plot" prefix is not really required, as "axes" already
clearly refers to graphics. Moreover, plotplots() works as well on
an already plotted axes, to somewhat post-process it by cutting
and presenting it in another way. Actually, that's the main job of
the function, even when data to plot are provided instead of an
already plotted axes.
* it's short, and it clearly tells what it does and the result
By the way, "cutaxes" almost means "cute axes" (with a french accent :-)
After including the function in Scilab, the current plotplots as
external ATOMS module will no longer be maintained. If plotplots() is
renamed into cutaxes(), current plotplots() users will have to rename
it in their existing codes. This should not be a big deal, since a
find/replace will be able to detect occurrences and replace them.
Final comments, suggestions and other feedbacks are still welcome!
Samuel
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